Jacques,
Everyone has a bad day, everyone needs the money at some
time. It goes with the territory of making a living at a
craft and sullen art where in the marketplace everyone has a
paying job except you.
Dennis-=Michael etc.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacques Debierue" <
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2005 4:32 PM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Hardboiled panic...
> The other night I was woken up by a storm and
couldn't go back to sleep,
so I picked up
> the Library of America Chandler collection. I said
what the hell, let's be
historical, and
> started reading Blackmailers Don't Shoot.
>
> Five, six pages into the story and I couldn't make
head or tail of it.
Lots of people getting
> shot, Mallory driving here and there, but it made no
sense. I finished
it, but it was
> painful. A situation: either to doubt Chandler's
ability to deliver the
magic or doubt my
> own hemispheres at two in the morning.
>
> The code of the card-carrying hardboil prohibits the
former, so... I went
on to read
> Trouble is My Business. Ah, Chandler. Just for good
measure I read The
King in Yellow. Ah,
> Chandler. But the panic was real. It made me think
of the faith we feed
into this.
>
> Best,
>
> MrT
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